This allows developers to create fully featured games and multimedia programs using the Python language as their main environment.

Pygame is highly portable and runs on nearly every platform and operating system.

Supports Linux(pygame comes with most main stream linux distributions), Windows(95,98,me,2000,XP,vista, 64bit windows etc), Windows CE, BeOS, MacOS, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, BSD/OS, Solaris, IRIX, and QNX. The code contains support for AmigaOS, Dreamcast, Atari, AIX, OSF/Tru64, RISC OS, SymbianOS, and OS/2, but these are not officially supported. You can use it on hand held devices from nokia, game consoles like gp2x, and the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) computer.